{"id":235714,"date":"2026-03-25T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235714\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:33:29","slug":"diesel-in-california-reaches-highest-price-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235714\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel in California Reaches Highest Price Ever Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n March 25, 2026 6:00 AM, EDT<\/p>\n<p>The average cost for a gallon of diesel in California rose to the highest level ever as the state deals with limited oil-refining capacity and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/oil-prices-rise-iran-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war in Iran<\/a> disrupts global energy shipments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A gallon of diesel costs an average of $7.018 a gallon, according to the latest data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Automobile Association<\/a>. That topped the previous record of $7.012 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/diesel-gas-prices-highest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 2022<\/a>, in the first months of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.\n      \t  \t\t<\/p>\n<p>Diesel futures have surged on the war in Iran, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/iran-hormuz-safe-pass-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz effectively closed<\/a> \u2014 cutting off both key trade flows of crude oil en route to refineries as well as shipments of diesel and other fuels produced in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 25, 2026 6:00 AM, EDT The average cost for a gallon of diesel in California rose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,106548,19378],"class_list":{"0":"post-235714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-diesel-prices","12":"tag-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}